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Dansh had reached Kendraa five years ago, ready to wake up the strongest churel of an ancient era. He had always wanted to bring her back, and now, as he was approaching his goal, he felt ecstatic. He was impatient to welcome Dali. It hadn’t been an easy journey to this point.
Dansh hadn’t always been like this. He had been brought up in a regular home with a loving family. As a child, he had lived happily with his parents, a brother, and a sister. But after getting his education, it all started to go downhill. He had failed to get a decent job, and instead had run away instead. He had been inspired by a horror story he had once heard when he was in high school, and he longed to discover if it was real. It was about the churel, Dali. It was said that someone skilled at dark magic could wake her up and obtain immortal powers. With no other plans in his life, this story sparked a greed in him that took him into the jungles of Himalaya, where he found a tantrik, an expert in all types of magic, especially the knowledge of all tantras. While learning black magic, he met fellow students Teryo, Unan, and Krito, who were following the same rage for the society that had failed them.
The tantrik wanted them to use the magic they were learning for good, to save people’s lives, not for their own greed. But consumed by the lust for power and immortality, Dansh escaped the place, stealing all the books on incantation when he left. He had persuaded Teryo, Unan, and Krito to join him, and planned that they, together, would wake up Dali. When the tantrik tried to stop them, Dansh and the trio of enchanters killed him brutally, using their fresh knowledge of dark magic to burn him.
Dansh studied all the books he had taken from their teacher, and while doing so, he trained his trio of friends with him. After about three years, when they believed that they finally possessed the full knowledge of dark magic, they targeted some small villages near the Himalayas to test how much they had learned. They looted the innocents and even murdered some to increase their magic skills—that, and for the sheer pleasures of it.
Dansh also memorized the history between asuras and devas’ conflicts, the stories about ancient rakshasas and other demons. He even found all the details he could about asuras’ guru, Shukracharya, and stored it somewhere in his brain—perhaps it could help him in the future.
After practicing their magic skills for a further year, Dansh had full confidence that he was ready to wake up Dali. With the help of Teryo, Unan, and Krito, he finally decided to visit the cave in the desert of Rajasthan where Dali had died.
Dansh had trapped Rahul and Elisa to use them as a sacrifice, just like he had used many other unsuspecting visitors before now. Now that he knew Dali was on the way, he could have freed them. But he had another use for them, as well the villagers.
Dansh wanted to impress Dali. He was eager to prove himself as her loyal servant so that later, in the future, he could ask for a boon of immortality. For this reason, he would sacrifice not only Rahul and Elisa, but every single one of the villagers.
